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Amanda Voisard

Biography

Amanda Voisard is a freelance visual journalist based on the East Coast. She recently finished her masters degree in multimedia photojournalism from Syracuse University and works as a regular contributor to The Washington Post. She is a graduate of Ohio University, and worked as a staff photographer from 2006 to 2009 at The Palm Beach Post in south Florida. Prior to her experience in Florida, she was a staff photographer in Watertown, N.Y.

Visual journalism, as a craft of photography, video and writing, fulfills the storyteller in Amanda. She credits her family for her creativity and looks to her late father, a modern artist and sculptor, for motivation and inspiration.

Her work has been published in various newspapers, magazines, and online publications including The Washington Post, New York TImes, Newsday, The Palm Beach Post, Seattle Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education,The Advocate, etc..

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Parracelle Primary School P4 students play games during their break. Northern Uganda schools were often a main target of the LRA during the war to abduct children for their army."

Yarren Kesman, 3, peers out from the window of her Uncle's shanty as her cousin, Firat, 5, takes advantage of the weather outside their home in Istanbul, Turkey. The family lives within a squatter community of Gecekondu homes, translated as house built over night. Yarren's father, and two Uncle's work long hours to support the family of 18. "

Tracey takes a breather while waiting for her daughter Johnna to tire before putting her to bed. Tracey has tried most of her life to break the the cycle of abuse in her family. Beginning at a young age, her mother would allow her boyfriends to molest her. She was frequently beaten and at times locked in a storage freezer. Tracey continues to work to regain custody of her other two other children, whom were removed from her home by the New York State child protective services."

Memorial participants pray during a candlelight vigil to honor the 2003 LRA invasion of the Teso sub-region through Obalanga sub-county in northwestern Uganda. A total of 365 victims remains were gathered from around the sub-county during the 8 month LRA invasion of the region and laid to rest in a mass grave that is now marked with a memorial monument. "

A women rests at the end of shared dormitory at the Chadwick Residence, a long term housing alternative for At-Risk Women and their families, in Syracuse, New York. "